Abstract A bag type cover arrangement for protecting from paint and blasting sand or grit brake adjusters that have been applied to the railroad car brake rigging (prior to painting of the railroad car underframe) during subsequent processing of the car as part of the procedure of manufacturing the car, including painting of same, which cover arrangement is in the form of a tube flexible plastic material proportioned to be received over the adjuster after the adjuster is extended to approximately its desired length (prior to application of the adjuster to the rigging), and extend from the adjuster clevis at the dead lever end of same over the adjuster let out and take up mechanism for tying down against the adjuster live lever end pull rod by a tie band. The end of the cover at the dead lever clevis end of the adjuster is partially heat sealed shut at a limited area adjacent its mid portion so that the clevis jaws can be pulled through either side of the cover shut end to seat this cover end against the clevis. With the cover in place, the adjuster is applied to the rigging, and is thus fully masked to protect same from blasting sand or grit and paint that is applied to the car at subsequent stages in its manufacture.
A shield for covering a brake adjuster from contamination by blasting or paint application, said shield comprising a tube of flexible material proportioned to be received over said adjuster and extend between opposite end portions of said adjuster, and means for anchoring the respective ends of said tube to said opposite end portions, respectively, said anchoring means comprising: one of the ends of said tube having opposed sides of said tube bonded together at an area limited to adjacency with the longitudinal axis of the tube to form a pair of radially aligned openings whereby said tube may be slipped over one of said opposite end portions of said adjuster to bring said tube bonded portion in abutting relation with said one of said opposite end portions and to receive a pair of parallel arms of said adjuster in said radially aligned openings, and tie band means for binding the other end of said tube against the other of said opposite end portions.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A shield for covering a brake adjuster from contamination by blasting or paint application, said shield comprising a tube of flexible material proportioned to be received over said adjuster and extend between opposite end portions of said adjuster, and means for anchoring the respective ends of said tube to said opposite end portions, respectively, said anchoring means comprising: one of the ends of said tube having opposed sides of said tube bonded together at an area limited to adjacency with the longitudinal axis of the tube to form a pair of radially aligned openings whereby said tube may be slipped over one of said opposite end portions of said adjuster to bring said tube bonded portion in abutting relation with said one of said opposite end portions and to receive a pair of parallel arms of said adjuster in said radially aligned openings, and tie band means for binding the other end of said tube against the other of said opposite end portions.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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The shield set forth in claim 1 wherein: said tie band means is applied to said other end of said tube between said opposite end portions.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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The shield set forth in claim 1 wherein: said tube is formed from plastic tubing having a thickness on the order of 0.005 inch.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
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The shield set forth in claim 3 wherein: the material from which said tubing is formed is polyethylene.